Word: sentimentals
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...sense of drift is demographic. The 60% of Europeans born since V-E day tend to dwell less on the horrors of World War II than on a U.S.-Soviet rivalry that bristles with nuclear weapons, many of them based on European soil. In Western Europe, some of that sentiment has flowed into the pacifist and antinuclear movement that brought thousands of people into the streets two years ago to protest the deployment of U.S. -built nuclear Pershing II and cruise missiles as a counter-force to a Soviet buildup of medium-range SS-20s. The era of mammoth demonstrations...
Matters reached a head last Monday after Dyson heard the complaints of bottlers. He recalls, "If one could have taken a vote, the clear majority would have been for us to begin a two-cola policy." Dyson conveyed that sentiment to Keough, who promptly huddled with Goizueta. Between them, the two top executives decided to bring back old Coke. After flirting with the name Original Coca-Cola, they settled on Coca-Cola Classic...
...Adds Field: "It's about learning to choose to be in a healthy relationship in your life. Breaking the pattern of always picking to lose. Picking to win." Anyone who remembers her "you-like-me-you-like-me" Academy Award speech last March will not be surprised by that sentiment...
...opinion for another figure who can hold the spotlight like Karol Wojtyla," says Vittorio Messori, a church historian who helped focus that spotlight by editing the late Pontiff's best seller Crossing the Threshold of Hope. "But what the church needs now is structure, governance and patient service." That sentiment is echoed by a surprisingly wide cross section of clerics who think that the former Pope's flair for the symbolic gesture sometimes came at the expense of administrative housecleaning. Even JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER, John Paul's theological enforcer as well as a possible Pope, has grouched about a certain...
Could a relatively colorless manager like GIOVANNI CARDINAL BATTISTA RE, head of the Congregation of Bishops, ride such a sentiment to St. Peter's chair? Probably not. More likely, the electors will try to find a John Paul--like inner glow combined with a head for institutional detail. Says Chicago's FRANCIS CARDINAL GEORGE: "Maybe you have to do both...